Notre Dame

Before, During and After the Fire

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75 min / FREE TOUR - tip only

1pm & 3pm every day

booking in advance is optional (groups of 8 and more please book)

What's in our tour?

Notre Dame Cathedral, home of the Hunchback, is Paris’ most visited attraction. With our post-fire tour, you still see and experience the magic of the cathedral of Notre Dame. You take the residents’ route and you walk right up to the church. The towers, flying buttresses, gargoyles, and rose windows are all on display.

With your born-and-raised local guide, you get the best vantage points and the closest spots (which often change). You step into the Forbidden city. You find out how Notre Dame came into possession of the Lord’s Crown of Thorns, and how it was saved from the fire. You hear how Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame saved the Cathedral two times over.

Barring construction site restrictions, may also include: Palais de Justice and Sainte Chapelle – Notre-Dame’s “younger sister”. Also Conciergerie, the palace of the French Kings and Marie Antoinette’s last home

Hot Day Special: on hot days, we walk in the shade, the guide brings fans for everyone, and every tour makes frequent stops for fresh water

Where and when?

From May 1: we run our Notre Dame Tour every day, rain or shine, at 1pm. Extra 3 pm tour from May 1 – Oct. 15.